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the bottom line is that with obama, you're dealing with a new kind of guy. when i was on c-span a couple of years ago, he said we don't judge people by what they believe. so obama claimed his path. this multicultural history and all we are saying is, what these influences really are. let's not just read his book and say, oh, here is a funny multicultural guy. let's realize that this guy was a dangerous revolutionary in its values to blow up bridges in to blow up bridges and this guy tried to bomb the pentagon. and this guy is a force of her revelation -- it's not because we are masters, it's because the story has, in a way, not been told. thank you very much. i really appreciate it. thank you. canly >> for more information, visit dinesh d'souza.com. >> the suspicion was raised when i realized that the car was a rd little lower to the ground on the front. given the rules of engagement, you can't just shoot someonee because they looked suspicious. u got >> you got scared, so you kill the man? si it's like, yes, sir, have a gunt and they said, you can't do that
the bottom line is that with obama, you're dealing with a new kind of guy. when i was on c-span a couple of years ago, he said we don't judge people by what they believe. so obama claimed his path. this multicultural history and all we are saying is, what these influences really are. let's not just read his book and say, oh, here is a funny multicultural guy. let's realize that this guy was a dangerous revolutionary in its values to blow up bridges in to blow up bridges and this guy tried to...
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president's barack obama, he's going to have to deal with it in the face of a fairly implacable republican opposition. so, you know, we need to know was -- is obama actually a strategic genius, and was, um, were things sort of gamed out work questions are quiz sitly -- exquisitely, or did he luck into the success of the last six, eight monthsing? it's important -- months. it's important to know because something you do deliberately tends to be reproducible. if you just luck into it, chances are you're not going to be able to pull it off again. so that's the question i want to answer in this talk; was it luck, or was it part of the master plan? my own view and the view that i put forth in the book is not part of the master plan. the, it was fairly lucky in a lot of respects, and i think, um, could have ended disastrously if not for some lucky breaks. namely that obama has benefited from a pretty irrational and self-sabotaging opposition. but you can't count on your opponents to always defeat themselves, so it's worth probably thinking through what you might have done differently had they be
president's barack obama, he's going to have to deal with it in the face of a fairly implacable republican opposition. so, you know, we need to know was -- is obama actually a strategic genius, and was, um, were things sort of gamed out work questions are quiz sitly -- exquisitely, or did he luck into the success of the last six, eight monthsing? it's important -- months. it's important to know because something you do deliberately tends to be reproducible. if you just luck into it, chances are...
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obama and his aide thought about the new deal when they were assembling the act, but it's like apples to bicycles in comparison. while fdr had contradictory initiatives, the stimulus was one piece of legislation cobbled together and squeezed through congress before most of the appointees were nominated. the new deal was a -- the recovery act was just a bill on capital hill but is was an astonishingly bill big. wait more than 50% bigger than the entire new deal. twice as big as the louisiana purchase and the marshall plan combined. as multibillion dollar line items were being eerased and incertained obama aides who served under president clinton occasionally caused to recall their futile push for a stimulus that seemed impossibly huge in 1993. there were battles over a few million bucks forks beloved programs that seemed to trivial to discuss. after a live microphone calls vice president biden calling obama's health care the big frigging deal -- we're on c-span -- i suggested to the chief of staff the stimulus was big. bigger, mcclain replied. we probably did more in that one bill than
obama and his aide thought about the new deal when they were assembling the act, but it's like apples to bicycles in comparison. while fdr had contradictory initiatives, the stimulus was one piece of legislation cobbled together and squeezed through congress before most of the appointees were nominated. the new deal was a -- the recovery act was just a bill on capital hill but is was an astonishingly bill big. wait more than 50% bigger than the entire new deal. twice as big as the louisiana...
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bottom line, with obama you are dealing with a new kind of guy. now, there is no question in my book, my film, they will attack us and say, why are you doing all of this? when i was on c-span a couple years ago to jonathan alter says in america we don't judge people by what their fathers believed. i said, well, yes. reagan did write a book called dreams for my father. obama has made his multiculturalism, his history, has passed, his story the centerpiece of who he is. never once has he said, oh, i did some crazy things and i was in my 20's and 30's, but i'm way over that now. that was like a ted kennedy moment, but i matured. to this day he has ask questions and says, go read my book. i wrote a 400 page book. obama claims is passed, claims this multicultural history, and all we're saying is, let's examine just how multi-cultural it really is and what these influences really are. let's just not read his book by saying, oh, here's a funny named multi-cultural guy. this guy, a dangerous revolutionary and used to blow up bridges and tried to bomb the
bottom line, with obama you are dealing with a new kind of guy. now, there is no question in my book, my film, they will attack us and say, why are you doing all of this? when i was on c-span a couple years ago to jonathan alter says in america we don't judge people by what their fathers believed. i said, well, yes. reagan did write a book called dreams for my father. obama has made his multiculturalism, his history, has passed, his story the centerpiece of who he is. never once has he said,...
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bottom line with obama you are dealing with a new kind of guy. no question in my book that -- why are you doing all this and getting into his past and so on. when i was on c-span couple years ago in america we don't judge people by what their fathers believe. ronald reagan's father was an alcoholic and you don't judge him by what his father thought. but reagan didn't write a book called dreams from my father. obama has made his multiculturalism leaders will his history, his past, his story the centerpiece of who he is. never once has he said i did crazy things in my 20s and 30s but i am way over that now. that was my ted kennedy moment but i have matured. to this day if he is asked questions go read my books. i wrote a 400 page book. he claims this multi-cultural history and all we are saying is let's examine how multi-cultural it is an what the influences are. here is the funny name, up multi-cultural guy. he was a dangerous revolutionary. used to blow up the bridges and baum the pentagon. and put a story together, people responding to our film
bottom line with obama you are dealing with a new kind of guy. no question in my book that -- why are you doing all this and getting into his past and so on. when i was on c-span couple years ago in america we don't judge people by what their fathers believe. ronald reagan's father was an alcoholic and you don't judge him by what his father thought. but reagan didn't write a book called dreams from my father. obama has made his multiculturalism leaders will his history, his past, his story the...
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obama is not a classic new deal liberal. he shares some of fdr's traits, self assurance bordering on egomaniac, harvard pedigree and even keel and allergy to ideologues he is not the second coming of fdr. he didn't grow up rich and didn't battle polio, he doesn't welcome the hatred of the elite and has a unique bond with the masses. doesn't share roosevelt's mistress of experts and take his campaign promises much more seriously than fdr ever did but the recovery act did update the new deal for a new year of. was obama's one shot to pursue his vision. a down payment on his agenda of curbing fossil fuel dependence and carbon emissions, modernizing healthcare and education, making the tax code more progressive and government more effective and building a sustainable competitive twenty-first century economy. let me talk about obama because this book is about his vision. i did like to reveal some new psychological pherae of the man. his dad was an economist. really, thank david maraniss for that stuff. pages are basically the sam
obama is not a classic new deal liberal. he shares some of fdr's traits, self assurance bordering on egomaniac, harvard pedigree and even keel and allergy to ideologues he is not the second coming of fdr. he didn't grow up rich and didn't battle polio, he doesn't welcome the hatred of the elite and has a unique bond with the masses. doesn't share roosevelt's mistress of experts and take his campaign promises much more seriously than fdr ever did but the recovery act did update the new deal for...
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tells you a great deal. the anger and they are going to al qaeda and the taliban because they are angry and what i'm suggesting is that we really have not had a debate on barack obama's counterterrorism measures and the cost. the legal aspect because not to ntion the moral. we estimate that more than one or 2000 pakistanis are killed, whole families wiped out. now in him inhuman there is another debate, i've been taking place in yemen about the whole american -- the united states is fighting the iraq war in yemen against al qaeda. the big point here to come back to barack obama, barack obama, and realizes that one single terrorist attack and the united states would undermine his presence. he realizes very much how important national security is for barack obama. that is why he goes far and beyond what -- the republicans cannot even -- i mean he really preempted the foreign-policy question with romney. he has no foreign-policy and ironically and historically it's the democrats and this tells you i mean, how d
tells you a great deal. the anger and they are going to al qaeda and the taliban because they are angry and what i'm suggesting is that we really have not had a debate on barack obama's counterterrorism measures and the cost. the legal aspect because not to ntion the moral. we estimate that more than one or 2000 pakistanis are killed, whole families wiped out. now in him inhuman there is another debate, i've been taking place in yemen about the whole american -- the united states is fighting...
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they wanted a deal and they tried repeatedly to get a deal. and having not gotten it, they were really, really disappointed and disillusioned. so what happens is really interesting. the lesson that obama takes away from this is that basically, i've been a little naÏve, the previous two and a half years. and where you see this is in august 2011, so within days of this negotiation breaking dow to extend the payroll tax that was about to expire at the end of the year. the old obama would have and, in fact, did try to kind of go in the room behind closed doors with republicans and talk to them. this obama was done with it. he basically went around the country and accuse these guys and wanted to raise taxes on working people. that was quite effective. the payroll tax cut got extended for us for two months and then for the full year. republicans basically folded on everything. and so i think you saw a real education happening last summer home in aiding with this one partisan, more populous cast, his presidency. and the real question i sort of leave
they wanted a deal and they tried repeatedly to get a deal. and having not gotten it, they were really, really disappointed and disillusioned. so what happens is really interesting. the lesson that obama takes away from this is that basically, i've been a little naÏve, the previous two and a half years. and where you see this is in august 2011, so within days of this negotiation breaking dow to extend the payroll tax that was about to expire at the end of the year. the old obama would have...
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and the obama administration was correct, these were not in the final deal. but nor were they in obama's letter to the brazilians and too the turks three weeks earlier. this created a significant problem between the united states and turkey and brazil. but what it also showed is that at the end of the day diplomacy between the united states and the west and iran actually hadn't failed. it had been abandoned. the success actually came, but it came six months too late. but by that time the political space of the administration, according to one obama official that i interviewed, had essentially run out. congress was coming at the administration like a steam roller, and there was a very legitimate fear in the obama administration. if they did not agree to rejecting the turkish/brazilian deal and by that forgoing the u.n. security council sanctions, then congress would pass its own sanctions, and that would have created a significant conflict between the states permanent five at the u.n. security council. and keeping a unity within the p5 against iran was a very
and the obama administration was correct, these were not in the final deal. but nor were they in obama's letter to the brazilians and too the turks three weeks earlier. this created a significant problem between the united states and turkey and brazil. but what it also showed is that at the end of the day diplomacy between the united states and the west and iran actually hadn't failed. it had been abandoned. the success actually came, but it came six months too late. but by that time the...
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there's a whole group of obamas i'm going to deal with any more substantive way than what the zero of where the story comes from the reminded me a little bit of what i was doing in the clinton book and it was in clinton's acceptance they had a film in southwestern arkansas and the simplicity of local life and he's from hot springs, a completely different place when with a dark side to it. the obama story is not the ciro and the story of his father takes place somewhere else and that is where the section of the book will start. >> host: one final question. we want to introduce their viewers [inaudible] >> leo you cannot make up. he belongs in an awful. he's 73-years-old triet he walks around with a menacing sort of club, she has a deep voice and laugh and he seems to know everybody in africa from the area the president of tanzania, the dictator of ugonda back in the 70's and 80's to everybody in kenya and he traveled with us. we met him yesterday and had three or four hours of fascinating discussions and then he traveled with us today in the morning and he was jury close to barack obam
there's a whole group of obamas i'm going to deal with any more substantive way than what the zero of where the story comes from the reminded me a little bit of what i was doing in the clinton book and it was in clinton's acceptance they had a film in southwestern arkansas and the simplicity of local life and he's from hot springs, a completely different place when with a dark side to it. the obama story is not the ciro and the story of his father takes place somewhere else and that is where...
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would obama be cut out or so eager to strike a deal he would redefine the west red lion? and of course, hanging over obama's head was the potential is really preventive strike from iran pro-military inducement that continues to do so viewed as absolutely disastrous for the region as a whole and u.s. interest. all of america's key allies, many will show, well but many few wish him success. after 30 years, it is clear to obama something needed to happen. in iran it was part of the access of evo. that type of language was conducive for diplomacy. first the language needed to change. obama did remarkable shift. much of the bush vocabulary was eradicated with the first few weeks. of the boldest move was the unprecedented video message the president sent to the iranian people on the eve of the iranian new year. that message he addresses the people of the government references as the republic signaling the bombing administration was not intend on the regime change. and spoke of the many problems how they could not be resolved. of clear departure from foreign policy of the bush a
would obama be cut out or so eager to strike a deal he would redefine the west red lion? and of course, hanging over obama's head was the potential is really preventive strike from iran pro-military inducement that continues to do so viewed as absolutely disastrous for the region as a whole and u.s. interest. all of america's key allies, many will show, well but many few wish him success. after 30 years, it is clear to obama something needed to happen. in iran it was part of the access of evo....
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but obama's said i can do it because i am a special. not those words. a great deal of over self-confidence, hubris, in my view he does not understand how the world works which makes him a richer. >> it was the new foundation in office. >> ms could win said that is not a good idea. she said it sounds like o woman's girdle to me to seven utah to the historians you went to dinner somewhere outside of the city not to be recognized. >> they were all sworn to secrecy and
but obama's said i can do it because i am a special. not those words. a great deal of over self-confidence, hubris, in my view he does not understand how the world works which makes him a richer. >> it was the new foundation in office. >> ms could win said that is not a good idea. she said it sounds like o woman's girdle to me to seven utah to the historians you went to dinner somewhere outside of the city not to be recognized. >> they were all sworn to secrecy and
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why doesn't obama's seem to care about the poor? is very professorial he does not connect with ordinary emotional issues. he does not seem to care about the poor because he doesn't. so you deal with a new kind of guy. there is no question they will say why do you do this? i was on c-span and they said readout judge people love their father. ronald reagan's father was an alcoholic. i said but rather a break and did not write a book called "dreams from my father." [laughter] aba than made his multi-cultural list of common history, past of this story, the centerpiece of whom he is. he never once said i did crazy things but i am over that now. it was by ted kennedy moment. no. today he says go read my book. it is in there. he claims his past and we say examine how multi a cultural it really is. into say here is a funny name multi-cultural guy he used to blow up bridges and has called for the destruction of israel to put to a story together. that is why people are responding to the film because it has not been told because it needs to be
why doesn't obama's seem to care about the poor? is very professorial he does not connect with ordinary emotional issues. he does not seem to care about the poor because he doesn't. so you deal with a new kind of guy. there is no question they will say why do you do this? i was on c-span and they said readout judge people love their father. ronald reagan's father was an alcoholic. i said but rather a break and did not write a book called "dreams from my father." [laughter] aba than...
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if you want a new deal, that implies there's something rotten with the old deal. you need to lift up america, change it, transform it, and liberalize it. this has been the constant agenda of liberalism for many generations now. obama's program is really the fourth installment of these successive waves of transformation. now, we have to notice that each one of these waves was halted, each came to an end. by 1920, progressivism was a spent force. by 1936, or at the latest, 1938, the new deal was effectively over at home. dr. new deal was replaced by dr. win the war as fdr put it, and, of course, in the 60s, the great society began, basically, after the assassination of kennedy in late 1963, was effectively over by 1966 or so. from the conservative point of view, we ought to be encouraged that each one of these waves was stopped, sometimes by a foreign war, sometimes simply by reaction at home, sometimes by both, but we have to notice as well that in each case the transformation resumed in the following generation. that fact, that with the generations delay, liberali
if you want a new deal, that implies there's something rotten with the old deal. you need to lift up america, change it, transform it, and liberalize it. this has been the constant agenda of liberalism for many generations now. obama's program is really the fourth installment of these successive waves of transformation. now, we have to notice that each one of these waves was halted, each came to an end. by 1920, progressivism was a spent force. by 1936, or at the latest, 1938, the new deal was...
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barack obama is not realistically dealing with nuclear power. this has been the a political football for years ever since the reagan administration. he didn't want the nuclear power, he didn't want the nuclear waste plant in the east and he did built in the west. some texas congressman didn't wanted in a state so that is how nevada got stuck with it. it has been studied however, this land, the yucca mountain site for 25 years. the facility has already built that and a cost $13.5 billion. it is safer to store nuclear waste in one central location in the middle of nowhere apologies to nevada, than to scatter it around the country which is what our current policy is. our current policy is when the nuclear power plant is done with the fuel you put it in a fuel pool, dry cast of incident on sight. that is less safe than taking it in and sticking it in a mountain underneath nevada. however the nuclear regulatory commission chair appointed by george bush and elevated by barack obama and he was the former senator to anti-yucca mountain senator harry rei
barack obama is not realistically dealing with nuclear power. this has been the a political football for years ever since the reagan administration. he didn't want the nuclear power, he didn't want the nuclear waste plant in the east and he did built in the west. some texas congressman didn't wanted in a state so that is how nevada got stuck with it. it has been studied however, this land, the yucca mountain site for 25 years. the facility has already built that and a cost $13.5 billion. it is...
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barack obama is not realistically dealing with nuclear power. this has been a political football for years, ever since the reagan in mr. nation. he didn't want the nuclear waste land ultimate 80s. tom foley didn't want it built in the west. some texas congressman didn't wanted in his statements about how nevada got such a good. it has been studied however, display and coming up the mountain has been studied for 25 years. the facility is built at a cost $13.50. it is safer to store nuclear waste in the one central location in the middle of nowhere, apologies to nevada comment benches scattered around the country, which is what our current policy is. our current policies in the nuclear power plant is done with the feel come me put it into a dry cascade and set it on site. that is less safe than just taking it all in and sticking it in the mountain underneath nevada. however, the nuclear regulatory commission originally penned by george w. bush and elevated to chairman by barack obama and he was a former senator to anti-yucca mountain senator reid.
barack obama is not realistically dealing with nuclear power. this has been a political football for years, ever since the reagan in mr. nation. he didn't want the nuclear waste land ultimate 80s. tom foley didn't want it built in the west. some texas congressman didn't wanted in his statements about how nevada got such a good. it has been studied however, display and coming up the mountain has been studied for 25 years. the facility is built at a cost $13.50. it is safer to store nuclear waste...
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they owe a great deal to valerie and treat her as though she has their godmother. she's now the senior adviser to both the first lady and the president of the united states and obama, himself, said i run all my decisions through valerie, and i trust her implicitly. we are short of the president and first lady short of valerie jared. >> you write trying to figure out the hole on the president and first lady is a guessing game in the parlors and dining rooms of washington. >> it's spring because what is her source of power. after all, she doesn't have foreign policy experience, but she attends national security council meetings. she doesn't have economic background, but she's often in the most important domestic meetings regarding the economy. no one gets to see the president without going through valerie. what's the power she has? the only explanation i could come up with after all the interviews i did was that she has given the first lady and the president the impression that she has their back, that she's protecting them from a hostile world, if you will, a world
they owe a great deal to valerie and treat her as though she has their godmother. she's now the senior adviser to both the first lady and the president of the united states and obama, himself, said i run all my decisions through valerie, and i trust her implicitly. we are short of the president and first lady short of valerie jared. >> you write trying to figure out the hole on the president and first lady is a guessing game in the parlors and dining rooms of washington. >> it's...
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with the military, how to deal with congress, how to deal with conflicting advisors advisors ao forth. i don't see this happening with barack obama. he has not brought in -- despite the fact he said he would have a team of rivals, other than hillary clinton, he has not brought in any rivals whatsoever. he is in fact hardly used his capitol at all and has create edgars who -- created these guards who are like minded of him, czars, including a woman named samantha power, one of her cheech e chief foreign policy advisedders, and i don't think see the sense that he has changed or developed a deeper or better understanding of how to deal, for instance, with the economy, than he did from day one. >> host: finally, edward lin, i wanted to ask you about -- you report on a meeting with historians that president obama held in the white house. >> guest: very interesting meeting. it took place when he was in office only five months. and he invited nine liberal historians to have dinner with him in the family quarters. no conservative historians were invited. and during that dinner, he laid out fo
with the military, how to deal with congress, how to deal with conflicting advisors advisors ao forth. i don't see this happening with barack obama. he has not brought in -- despite the fact he said he would have a team of rivals, other than hillary clinton, he has not brought in any rivals whatsoever. he is in fact hardly used his capitol at all and has create edgars who -- created these guards who are like minded of him, czars, including a woman named samantha power, one of her cheech e chief...
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the country has changed a great deal in the last 50 years. that brings us to president obama and the sparks that launched the tea party activism. for people in the tea party, obama is a symbol of this cultural change. in person, people are more circumspect. he they would say things like, i just can't understand him. they don't know where he's coming from. they don't understand his background. he is at this nexus. he had huge amounts of support from younger voters. he was up america's first black president. he is perceived as foreign. he has a foreign father. he is perceived as not of this country. that was something that made people nervous. worst of all, he was a college professor. so he was the nexus of these three concerns. this was, in a fundamental way, what drove the tea party spark right at the beginning of the obama administration. it is what inspired their continued activism. they can help us think about what might happen to the tea party after the 2012 election. >> all right. so this up slowing swelling of anger and fear and determi
the country has changed a great deal in the last 50 years. that brings us to president obama and the sparks that launched the tea party activism. for people in the tea party, obama is a symbol of this cultural change. in person, people are more circumspect. he they would say things like, i just can't understand him. they don't know where he's coming from. they don't understand his background. he is at this nexus. he had huge amounts of support from younger voters. he was up america's first...
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barack obama is not relistically dealing with nuclear power. this has been a political football for years ever since the reagan administration. he didn't want the nuclear waste plant built out in the east, tom foley didn't want it built in the west, some texas congressman didn't want it in his state, so that's how nevada got stuck with it. it's been studies, however, this land, yucca mountain's been studied for about 25 years, and the facility's already built, and it cost about $13.5 billion. it is safer to store nuclear waste in one central location in the middle of nowhere -- apologies to north nevada -- tho scatter it around the country which is what our current policy is. our current policy is when the nuclear power plant is done with the fuel, you put it into a fuel pool or a dry casket and sit it on site. that is less safe than just taking it all in and sticking it underneath a mountain in nevada. however, the chair, gregory crash coe -- originally appointed by jrnlg w. bush and elevated to chairman by barack obama and a former senator to
barack obama is not relistically dealing with nuclear power. this has been a political football for years ever since the reagan administration. he didn't want the nuclear waste plant built out in the east, tom foley didn't want it built in the west, some texas congressman didn't want it in his state, so that's how nevada got stuck with it. it's been studies, however, this land, yucca mountain's been studied for about 25 years, and the facility's already built, and it cost about $13.5 billion....
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i don't see this with barack obama. despite the fact that he said he was going to have a team of rivals. other than hillary clinton, he has not brought in any rivals whatsoever. in fact, he has hardly used his cabinet at all, and he has a very liberal like mind people, including one of his chief foreign policy advisers. he has developed a deeper understanding of the economy than he did from day one. >> finally, edward klein, author of "the amateur", you report on the meeting with the story and the president obama held in the white house. >> it is an interesting meeting. it took place when he was in office only five months. he invited non-liberal historians to have dinner with him in the family quarters. no conservative historians were invited. during that dinner, he laid out for them early on in his office, his view of what he would accomplish. basically what he said is he wants to be a transformational president who will bring social equality to the united states by spreading the wealth around, that he believed in a mo
i don't see this with barack obama. despite the fact that he said he was going to have a team of rivals. other than hillary clinton, he has not brought in any rivals whatsoever. in fact, he has hardly used his cabinet at all, and he has a very liberal like mind people, including one of his chief foreign policy advisers. he has developed a deeper understanding of the economy than he did from day one. >> finally, edward klein, author of "the amateur", you report on the meeting...
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ll o'reilly asked barack obama th lassupebolt e inieiat it usr.est is the muslim brotherhood a threats to the united states? the muslim brotherhood is the sworn enemy of the united states. there's a lot of talk about how they have renounced violence. wawhhe yp temporaresure w tapr i out the window and if you are a christian in egypt you had better pack your bags and skedaddle right now. because this is cuains for you. hen'aert ry. of course the muslim brotherhood is a direct threat to the united states. my view of governor romney, and i have heard him talk out this on several occasions, is that even though he hasn't go int thiso t tahi sts hie oly t. usha to hope -- he is going to be a gazillion times better than barack obama anyway in a million different ways but we have to hope once he gets an ananheamthy to rootouo eeafinhefera government in so many ways. we see it here in new york city with the best counterterrorism, department apart from the fbi and th cia. whisasatntoe a ouorhslbhed, w to attack it so we need leadership in this country. thank god for commissioner ray kelly in new
ll o'reilly asked barack obama th lassupebolt e inieiat it usr.est is the muslim brotherhood a threats to the united states? the muslim brotherhood is the sworn enemy of the united states. there's a lot of talk about how they have renounced violence. wawhhe yp temporaresure w tapr i out the window and if you are a christian in egypt you had better pack your bags and skedaddle right now. because this is cuains for you. hen'aert ry. of course the muslim brotherhood is a direct threat to the...
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. >> host: when we see president obama or president bush spending a lot of time in florida and ohio, that right there is the key? >> guest: exactly. what sparked the idea was president bush's first term when there was a lot of focus on the time he spent in ohio, florida, pennsylvania. and you can certainly find examples of presidents, but i said but would receive for systematically, over decades, everything presidents do? what patterns to play out and is there a disproportionate focus on a lecture on matters? >> host: what did you find? >> guest: we've seen a substantial increase in the time presidents to vote to electoral concern. the clear indicators that the president goes to ohio two years before the election, is either because it's one of the largest states or because he cares about the people of ohio or the presidential election. that's a bit harder to say. but what is unambiguously electoral is presidential fundraising and that is seen as kuwait over the past three and a half decades. we've also seen a rise in strategic travel and disproportionate focus on battleground states
. >> host: when we see president obama or president bush spending a lot of time in florida and ohio, that right there is the key? >> guest: exactly. what sparked the idea was president bush's first term when there was a lot of focus on the time he spent in ohio, florida, pennsylvania. and you can certainly find examples of presidents, but i said but would receive for systematically, over decades, everything presidents do? what patterns to play out and is there a disproportionate...
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the find that obama as he is trying to deal with the economy as it becomes increasingly protectionist on its own he turnto the clinton democrats and says -- and there are four or five working with them and he says did we screw this up, how come you didn't leave me with a lot of leverage and the best one liner about obama's frame of mind dealing with them is to say he is no adam smith. [laughter] up to vietnam which was walter lippmann, i think we can include george kennon, and that tradition with third within the space culture, democratic party culture. you still have less michael mandelbaum but i believe i read somewhere that obama may be because of the chicago connection he has read the writings he's a huge name and intellectual history but in passing where he was given writing for that west point. >> this is for the speech on the nobel peace prize. do you know more about whether you could call obama and a realist mode and then he moves away from that depending on circumstances? >> i think that's fair. i think he's fundamentally day in and day out a realist and when faced with issue
the find that obama as he is trying to deal with the economy as it becomes increasingly protectionist on its own he turnto the clinton democrats and says -- and there are four or five working with them and he says did we screw this up, how come you didn't leave me with a lot of leverage and the best one liner about obama's frame of mind dealing with them is to say he is no adam smith. [laughter] up to vietnam which was walter lippmann, i think we can include george kennon, and that tradition...
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is that he really goes back to the new deal concept that government can fix all things and we've seen our debt, mort debt growth with president obama and three years than we saw with bush and 08 and that is what you are seeing that we are trying to change. we've got to get all of this debt. i care about my children and grandchildren to be we've got to stop the spending and if you are going to ask every governor in the country to balance the budget, washington has to balance their budget. that is at the heart of everything we are talking about on foreign relations i will tell you the situation says all. we don't know what he's thinking from a foreign affairs standpoint and that is scary. >> been governor haley from the commodity markets council. you talked little about immigration, and i think the republican party's commitment to enforcing the rules of law when it comes to illegal information as well within the commendable of the other part of the equations sometimes gets left out a little bit, so could you talk a little bit about how the republican party needs to change both its perce
is that he really goes back to the new deal concept that government can fix all things and we've seen our debt, mort debt growth with president obama and three years than we saw with bush and 08 and that is what you are seeing that we are trying to change. we've got to get all of this debt. i care about my children and grandchildren to be we've got to stop the spending and if you are going to ask every governor in the country to balance the budget, washington has to balance their budget. that...
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obama and his aides thought a lot about the new deal while assembling the recovery act. in some ways it is apples to bicycle comparison. the new deal through a barrage of sometimes contradictory initiatives enacted and adjusted over several years. the stimulus was one piece of legislation called together squeeze through congress before most of obama's appointees were nominated. the new deal was a journey, an era. the recovery act was just a bill on capitol hill but it was an astonishingly big bill. it costs dollars and was 50% bigger than the entire new deal and twice as big as the louisiana purchase and the marshall plan combined. as multibillion-dollar line items were being erased with casual keystrokes' if obama aides who served under president clinton occasionally paused to recall their feudal push for a $19 billion stimulus that seemed impossibly huge in 1993 where vicious internal bottles over a few million dollars for beloved programs that seem too trivial to discuss. after a live microphone caught vice president joe biden accurately calling obama's health-care th
obama and his aides thought a lot about the new deal while assembling the recovery act. in some ways it is apples to bicycle comparison. the new deal through a barrage of sometimes contradictory initiatives enacted and adjusted over several years. the stimulus was one piece of legislation called together squeeze through congress before most of obama's appointees were nominated. the new deal was a journey, an era. the recovery act was just a bill on capitol hill but it was an astonishingly big...
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a great deal of disappointment in many quarters. can we en begin talking wo.is a bav o i dk y cu oma presidency without discussing what i call the bitter legacy, the better inheritance between the united repoon yas the middle east, tha wears t uted states sacrificed human rights and sacrificed repressive forces un strugin the sieti called 94 1 so age doneo m e so hd spi. this particular bitter legacy culminated in that septe ptem11. octiivod iasn d re iea was shed as a result. and this is why i think any particular dcued t rtularr lac. n w ew wwealut i e talking about in particular multiple wars and multiple fronts. the hundreds of thousands of american troops bating mli thuntate das inre b sateg malndof uni es set back the credibility of the united states as a rational actor. the ited states of america baenng, aing, t leader exmegorr, ecomos t1, between three and $5 trillion, three and 5 trillion. >> and going to stop you on that. 's one of those numbers. and adinand writi t heang mberor s l 'sho nbe impolepren. ats trillion? i can
a great deal of disappointment in many quarters. can we en begin talking wo.is a bav o i dk y cu oma presidency without discussing what i call the bitter legacy, the better inheritance between the united repoon yas the middle east, tha wears t uted states sacrificed human rights and sacrificed repressive forces un strugin the sieti called 94 1 so age doneo m e so hd spi. this particular bitter legacy culminated in that septe ptem11. octiivod iasn d re iea was shed as a result. and this is why i...
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i think the best on-liner about obama's frame of mind one of the people deali withhim t's jue'noam sm. aur] ers aritth s tn the left in the '40s, '50s up tn caonwt, i th adnhe in democratic culture -- party culture you still have lest or peter gull ra ybe ch iiee whhobae bee cc nnonbes th he write the writings. he is a huge name in arican inecal htory. u iohi i ssg wi hasverngr thst in nit t sec the noble peace prize. >> do you know more about you couldca oba set i raalmo ad en veaym dendon rcan >>hihaf i think, you know, he's fundamentally day in and day out a liberal realist. when faced whisue e ar in ego de ms >>ne-ha. >> hi. my question is sort of on the much tald about pivt to asa whisnoxly th ivl sr thdds ot a y are for it. my question is a ersonnel question about the borings and handling themdlea. he e o lr de. iteeaoh tsthwahanern sof ma began specific personnel owning the middle east and the israel issue. you sort of people like denni roanrg ch kg ou deovemeif 'sth o i'eat. ndg tat true there haven't been balm-specific advisers that come aound to own or preent a differt visio
i think the best on-liner about obama's frame of mind one of the people deali withhim t's jue'noam sm. aur] ers aritth s tn the left in the '40s, '50s up tn caonwt, i th adnhe in democratic culture -- party culture you still have lest or peter gull ra ybe ch iiee whhobae bee cc nnonbes th he write the writings. he is a huge name in arican inecal htory. u iohi i ssg wi hasverngr thst in nit t sec the noble peace prize. >> do you know more about you couldca oba set i raalmo ad en veaym...
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part of the deal was, i mean, look, obama and speaker boehner would have a much harder time making a deal because they had problems in both of their parties as they say, but in talking about this with them if they'd had -- what's the word? -- courage to say let's make a deal and go out, get before the microphones and the cameras and say this is what it's going to be, and this is going to be painful, and we're going to ask all democrats and republicans to vote for it because we have to protect our financial future, because that's what it's about at the end. they essentially told me they thought it would work, that they could have done it. and, of course, they did not. yes. >> are bob, that's a good lead-in to my question. the grand bargain that came to the floor towards the end, the president put entitlements on the table. i don't recall the world unraveling from that notion. how real do you suppose that proposal was, and are we likely to revisit that in the spring? >> well, it gets into detail, and i have a whole chapter on this, and it has to do with six senators saying, gee, we can
part of the deal was, i mean, look, obama and speaker boehner would have a much harder time making a deal because they had problems in both of their parties as they say, but in talking about this with them if they'd had -- what's the word? -- courage to say let's make a deal and go out, get before the microphones and the cameras and say this is what it's going to be, and this is going to be painful, and we're going to ask all democrats and republicans to vote for it because we have to protect...
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obama era," along with bob woodward's" the price of politics". did bob's book get the attention that most of his books get? >> guest: feeling is that it got initial attention, but that it was crowded out by just the nature of the news cycle happening so fast. officially, at least in my mine, there were a couple nuggets reported before, but there was not that many other ones that emerged after those initial one or two, so, therefore, the book lost momentum, but i'm sure bob will have an equally substantive answer on this front too. >> guest: i believe, it's always a standard of what you compare it to. for bob woodward, it was not his most commercially successful book. i think sarah touched on two things. one, the news cycle has so speeded up, and the other factor was the topic. it was about the negotiations over the budget and the debt. that's not exactly an exciting sexy topic for a lot of people. opposed to his books on maneuverings in the bush white house over the war, which i think would have more interest. >> host: well -- >> guest: one thing
obama era," along with bob woodward's" the price of politics". did bob's book get the attention that most of his books get? >> guest: feeling is that it got initial attention, but that it was crowded out by just the nature of the news cycle happening so fast. officially, at least in my mine, there were a couple nuggets reported before, but there was not that many other ones that emerged after those initial one or two, so, therefore, the book lost momentum, but i'm sure bob...
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reh >> kwascedn adi c crt hn mle obama's great-grandmother, lived in hyde park and that w a big deal. she lived not farrom where the obamasive today, a somne hacndo mt ic mon sud t thh r isced e bombings, african-americans were moving into hyde park and there was this activconctedcampaign meth t. i iz moss t 'tlo conversation. suspicious propaganda. >> it was remarkable, and i many tere.mber now eactay h ancoinaf a again, i don't know -- >> there is clan activity in hide part. >> it was a the really striking ti thot dknao mrba riv arned that phoebe had talk about it, that when the violence of the riots were sweeping the city, hebatrelndwa tinti, e t a pot full of water and lie in oil di on the stove and she said she wased iw hom insttoll aced e torly there. >> thapart of the book in some ways reay does because by the time yougethe debewosaau knnbu rty hi pbl that point. a "new york time reviewer said of michele's ancestors that a were and thatote,all plain le edortnd ng eiastl t le obon, y h,v, an illiteracy, yet there is an isn't also occasionally a sweet story o--awdi tenreor? >>out
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i think that what we have seen with president obama is that he would really go back to that new deal concept that government can fix all things. we have seen our debt -- we have seen more debt grow with president obama in three years than we have seen with president bush in 2008. those are the things we are trying to change. we've got to get out of this debt. we've got to stop the spending. if you're going to ask every other governor in the country to balance the budget, washington has to balance their budget. that is at the heart of everything we are talking about. they need to prioritize where they need to spend. on foreign relations, i will tell you the hot situation says it all. we don't know what he is thinking from a foreign affairs standpoint. and that is scary. >> governor haley, you talk a little bit about immigration. i think the republican party's commitment to supporting the lot, which is commendable. could you talk about how the republican party needs to change vote its perception among the public and voters, as well as substantial policy issues on what we can do for leg
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support of the of obama and the things i don't like. t c most of the catholics thinksgoip it will help support people. that it isn't it. it goes to organizations ft-win like i -- acorn and otherndou left-wing organizations. then they have to comply with rules that is true with a mandate that should be a tremendous alert but manyin just tnations maintain schools andre a catholic network and it is simply ane acceptable obama's tries to put out the notion there is "no higher power" and the. federal government.heacot. also calling the accommodation that give them owe one year to punish theml yeo means financial death for the organization in. many catholics were very shocked when notre dame invited obama to be the commencement speaker was the slap. i read the brief they filed against the obama mandate. i it is brilliant and worth reading. - maybe 75 pages and sets it out one after another the religious freedom past two main christian schools and avlleges and hospitals do h not have to violate their religious believes or provide insurance to
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i think what we've seen with president obama is that he really goes back to the new deal concept that government can fix all things that we have seen our debt -- we've seen more debt growth with president obama in three years the messiah with bush and eight and that is what she received that were trying to change. it got to get out of this debt. i care about that for my children and grandchildren. got to stop the spending. fiasco rather governor in the country to balance the budget, washington has to balance the budget. they need to prioritize where they need to span. unformed relations mike situation says it all. we don't know what he's thinking from a foreign affairs standpoint and that is scary. >> governor haley send sheep from the market council. you talked a little about immigration and i think the republican party's commitment to enforcing the rule of law when it comes to stability immigration is valid and commendable. but i think the other part of the equation sometimes gets left out a little. could you talk about how the republican party needs to change both this perception a
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in fact it was hillary clinton that forced his hand to a great deal because he was very much in tune with sarkozy and ther people so at the end of the day, of barack obama and the national security as you know was opposed the military said we are overextended. e reality is at the end he was presented with a particular and the whole debate was you have to do something about libya. and the truth is that wouldn't help his cause by saying we will chase you from house to house and go after you. we will kill you -- >> host: he was speaking to the armed rebel -- >> guest: the idea even many of us if you had asked myself as a student of the arab world would you trust him so if i were suggesting even we don't have the complete evidence i think based on everything that we know he was trying to divorce himself to stay away from mauney take on it and i could be wrong he realized a massacre could take place and look, it was the united states was not directly engaged. france and britain provided a great deal of logistical military -- >> host: and -- >> guest: i don't think that barack obama was ke
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jeffrey toobin, the oath, obama white house versus the supreme court and michael grunwald, new deal: hidden story of changing the obama era along with bob woodward's, the price of politics. i want to ask, did that word were its most recent book at the attention most of his books get? >> my feeling is that it got initial attention but was crowded out by the nature of the new seiko happening so fast. in my mind through a couple of nuggets not reported before, but there was sent that many other ones that emerged after one or two comes to care for the book lost its momentum. i'm sure bob will have been equally subsisted answer on this, too. >> what are you comparing it to? it was not his most commercially successful book. so it thinks are touched on two things. one is the new seiko has so speeded up in the other fact it was the topic. it was about negotiations of the budget, the dead. that's not exactly an exciting second topic for a lot of people. i opposed to his books on maneuvering the bush white house over the war, which i think would have more interest. >> guest: one thing i wanted
jeffrey toobin, the oath, obama white house versus the supreme court and michael grunwald, new deal: hidden story of changing the obama era along with bob woodward's, the price of politics. i want to ask, did that word were its most recent book at the attention most of his books get? >> my feeling is that it got initial attention but was crowded out by the nature of the new seiko happening so fast. in my mind through a couple of nuggets not reported before, but there was sent that many...
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bush and prime minister maliki are the one designed the original deal that would affect u.s. forces lead by the end of 2011. we give obama some credit, even though myself at least i think in the book reflect the was the logic of trying to stay. once the iraqis said no, thank you. , we were right to leave. so again, obama i think makes the call case-by-case. there is a sense of which enters our father, which ones are secondary. but there's also a pragmatism. the last point, this quick overview on afghanistan, i don't know how to predict his next move because the past three years would suggest he's going to be hawkish. but i think is constantly assessing the new build of the mission and he also knows that al qaeda has been largely decimated on his watch. to some extent to his credit, to some extent to the credit of our broader intelligence. and, therefore, frankly mistakes in afghanistan maybe a notch below what he thought them what we all fought for years ago. so i think you will continue to assess not just where we have been on afghanistan and where he has been, but what is d
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i think that what we have seen the president obama is that he really goes back to that new deal concept that government can fix all things. and we have seen our debt -- we have seen more debt growth with president obama in three years and we saw what bush did in eight years. that is what you are saying that we are trying to change. we have to try to get out of this rut. i care about that for my children and grand children. we have to stop spending. if you're going to ask every other governor in the country to balance the budget, washington has to balance their budget. that is at the heart of everything we are talking about. they need to prioritize where they need to spend. on foreign relations, i will tell you that the hot mike situation says it all. we don't know what a stinking permit foreign affairs standpoint. and that is scary. >> governor, you talk a little bit about immigration. i think the republican party's commitment to enforcing the rule of law when it comes to illegal immigration is certainly valid and commendable. but i think the other part of the equation sometimes gets le
i think that what we have seen the president obama is that he really goes back to that new deal concept that government can fix all things. and we have seen our debt -- we have seen more debt growth with president obama in three years and we saw what bush did in eight years. that is what you are saying that we are trying to change. we have to try to get out of this rut. i care about that for my children and grand children. we have to stop spending. if you're going to ask every other governor in...
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. >> host: it is quite amazing a impediments to torah, obama said through in her dealings with her son, barack and why she told them the story sh did aurely lv baoaa senior because she didn't want to destroy this little boy who had enough other things to deal with in his life as a half black, half white i in ooul iply rs w e teisho a him. and you know coming year by year, as he grew, he started to understand to some degree the reality had to be diffrent from what he hadbe ot snnte toka himself he understood. host: in your introduction, david, maraniss, he surely thought he tried to short out his identity. hiu an rga o edma tghia ncn tthe root causes of his feelings about a misunderstanding of its responses to it. >> guest: well, this is not in any way to diminish the role that race plays infortion. 'sea ths heinou irwiis his search for a daddy and home is a lot to do with race, but also this involved wh the dean and dean laughed. ba ciofoh a ast his mother,even as much as as much as she loves him and inculcated her philosophy of life, she was gone for most of his formative adolescent y
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a sort of, you know, obama in 20002-9 delivered his famous new beginning speech. he said he would stand with the arab people against tyranny and made a number of very strong statements which probably was expecting to be called upon so soon. dino, at the time you have cereal looking as the sequential arab revolts came, there were very few places where the united states had uneasy or even a conceivable h to come in and do something where the consequences were not dramatic or at least there could be a positive. egypt was a longtime ally and banker in the middle east, supportive of israel. tunisia was a little better, but by that point it had crossed the threshold. syria, the comparisons with libya are quite, you know, it's very different. it's multi sectarian society with lots and lots of connections to other plot powers . lebanon, israel, disrupting or changing that relationship could have all sorts of consequences which are unknown. so libya presented -- was unique in that the libyans have a popular uprising. there was a program that had been put forth by a small g
a sort of, you know, obama in 20002-9 delivered his famous new beginning speech. he said he would stand with the arab people against tyranny and made a number of very strong statements which probably was expecting to be called upon so soon. dino, at the time you have cereal looking as the sequential arab revolts came, there were very few places where the united states had uneasy or even a conceivable h to come in and do something where the consequences were not dramatic or at least there could...
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when i got there, under the obama administration, i think it was a great deal of frustration. i think it was viewed as a traitor for having been so critical of the obama administration is a democrat. you know, one of my favorite rumors that they spread was that i was actually going to push and become a republican and run for office as a republican. his is one of their, you know, one of the rumors. of course, it was not true. but when you have a job like that, your job is not to be a democrat or a republican. you have to put politics out of your mind. early on, it was something we struggled with. we are putting out an audit that he we knew would be very hurtful to the obama administration. particularly going into the midterms. and you say, i'm a democrat, i can still serve under obama. how i feel about putting out a report that i know that it was at the cbi in an area that's horrible. the answer is i took an oath of office. i put my hand on the family bible and i swore to uphold the job i was going to do. and ultimately, that always put politics and those issues behind us and o
when i got there, under the obama administration, i think it was a great deal of frustration. i think it was viewed as a traitor for having been so critical of the obama administration is a democrat. you know, one of my favorite rumors that they spread was that i was actually going to push and become a republican and run for office as a republican. his is one of their, you know, one of the rumors. of course, it was not true. but when you have a job like that, your job is not to be a democrat or...
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i think that what we're seeing with president obama is that he really goes back to the new deal concept that government can fix all things. and we have seen our debt, we've seen more debt growth with president obama in three years that we saw with bush in eight. and that is what you were saying that we are trying to change. we've got to get out of this debt. i care about that for my children and my grandchildren. we've got to stop the spin but if you're going to ask every other governor in the country to balance their budget, washington has to balance their budget. that is at the heart of everything we're talking about. a need to prioritize where they need to spend. on foreign relations i would to the hot mic situation says it all. >> governor haley, i'm from the commodities markets gaza. you talked about immigration, and i think the republican party's commitment to enforcing the rule of law when it comes to illegal immigration is valuable and commendable but i think the other part of the equation sometimes gets left out a little bit, so could you talk about how the republican party nee
i think that what we're seeing with president obama is that he really goes back to the new deal concept that government can fix all things. and we have seen our debt, we've seen more debt growth with president obama in three years that we saw with bush in eight. and that is what you were saying that we are trying to change. we've got to get out of this debt. i care about that for my children and my grandchildren. we've got to stop the spin but if you're going to ask every other governor in the...
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and i do think to some extent barack obama of relative lack of experience before he was president we have seen the result he has not shown as much leadership as he should have. obviously he has been dealt an extraordinarily tough hand with the republicans and willingness to work with him and the economy and the threats from iran and we don't know what will happen. but he could have shown more of leadership when it relates to the deficit commission he should have knocked some democratic leaders heads just like lbj to say this is the way to do this. >> host: why did he not do that? >> guest: it is not in his personality. not the way he looks at the world. he is consensus, not confrontational and it was also his relative lack of experience in the senate before president. >> host: talk about the republican race. [laughter] obviously it is not controversial to say it has gone further to the right this time around but what do you see as the future of the republican party? i am curious about that. what might change that dynamic? >> i don't know. i would have said one year-ago it would be a
and i do think to some extent barack obama of relative lack of experience before he was president we have seen the result he has not shown as much leadership as he should have. obviously he has been dealt an extraordinarily tough hand with the republicans and willingness to work with him and the economy and the threats from iran and we don't know what will happen. but he could have shown more of leadership when it relates to the deficit commission he should have knocked some democratic leaders...
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and i think the best one-liner about obama's frame of mind, one of the people dealing with him was to say, you know, let's just say he's no adam smith. [laughter] >> my second observation -- >> yeah. >> -- pertains to a tradition that was very strong on the left in the '40s, '50s, up to vietnam which was rhine -- [inaudible] i think we can include george cannon, and i think that tradition withered within democratic culture, democratic party culture. you still have les gelb, maybe a michael mandelbaum. but i believe i read somewhere that obama, maybe because of the chicago connection nieber was there, that he's read nieber's writings. and you mentioned him in passing where he was given some writings of nieber for that west point -- >> no, this was for the speech on the nobel peace prize. >> oh, the nobel peace prize. >> yeah. >> but do you know more about whether you could call obama sometimes in a liberal, realist mode and then he moves away from it depending on circumstances? >> i think that's fair. um, i think, you know, he's fundamentally day in and day out a liberal realist, but w
and i think the best one-liner about obama's frame of mind, one of the people dealing with him was to say, you know, let's just say he's no adam smith. [laughter] >> my second observation -- >> yeah. >> -- pertains to a tradition that was very strong on the left in the '40s, '50s, up to vietnam which was rhine -- [inaudible] i think we can include george cannon, and i think that tradition withered within democratic culture, democratic party culture. you still have les gelb,...
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obama came very close, the summer of last year, to making a deal with john boehner to make significant cuts in the formula that is used to compute social security benefits when people retire. this led to very major cuts, especially for people in their 20s, 30s and 40s today. social security very much has been on the chopping block in the last couple of years. social security should be a major issue in this campaign, because practically every republican in congress, every member of the tea party, but even more senior ones that have been around a while. practically every republican in congress has been on the record at one time or another, favoring drastic cuts in social security. this has to be -- this has to be a major issue, given the fact that the grand bargain that obama and john boehner tried to make last my summer is bound to come up again. either during the lame duck session ordering the congress. they will try to make social security part of a deal to cut the deficit. it is absolutely essential that what happened last year not be forgotten during this campaign and that people br
obama came very close, the summer of last year, to making a deal with john boehner to make significant cuts in the formula that is used to compute social security benefits when people retire. this led to very major cuts, especially for people in their 20s, 30s and 40s today. social security very much has been on the chopping block in the last couple of years. social security should be a major issue in this campaign, because practically every republican in congress, every member of the tea...
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and the, um, the administration had made these health care deals like the nebraska one that were very unpopular and didn't look that great, and barack obama was starting to look like a more ordinary politician, and that's really what she was reacting to. and so that's part of why i think the partnership is so interesting. it's not that we're, like, delving into the secrets of their marriage, we're looking at her vision of the presidency and be, um, what she stakes him to and the standards that she has and whether he can meet them. >> you can watch this and other programs op line at book -- online at booktv.org. >>> next, richard thompson ford argues that civil rights laws have been misappropriated by individuals, special interest groups and the political left and right for personal gain. it's about an hour.i [inaudible conversations]am >> good evening, everyone. i'm dan atkinson, i'm the director of arts, humanities ano almosts at the university of california san diego extension, and it's my pleasure to welcome you here for this opening event in our 2011-2012 series of the revelle for
and the, um, the administration had made these health care deals like the nebraska one that were very unpopular and didn't look that great, and barack obama was starting to look like a more ordinary politician, and that's really what she was reacting to. and so that's part of why i think the partnership is so interesting. it's not that we're, like, delving into the secrets of their marriage, we're looking at her vision of the presidency and be, um, what she stakes him to and the standards that...